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English tapestry panel with Jacob and Esau

Image attached to T.7B-1961

An image of Textile. Panel, one of a pair. Tapestry, depicting the story of 'Jacob and Esau'. Sheldon. Woven, 1558-1603. English. Elizabethan.

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Textile. Panel, one of a pair. Tapestry, depicting the story of 'Jacob and Esau'. Sheldon. Woven, 1558-1603. English. Elizabethan.

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  • Accession Number: T.7b-1961
  • Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
  • Aperture: f/27.0
  • Focal length: 50
  • Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
  • Photographer name: Amy Jugg
  • Image height: 945 pixels
  • Image width: 1024 pixels
  • Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
  • Filesize: 339.19kB
  • Exposure time: 1/60
  • ISO Speed: 100
  • Fnumber: 27/1
  • Captured: 2014:01:07 15:37:39

Key words

16th Century 17th Century animal biblical birds blind costume deer dogs Elizabethan English Esau fields Fitz_AA fruits Genesis hounds hunter hunting huntsman Jacob (Old Testament) kneeling male Old Testament panel pears religious roses stags tapestry tent textile weaving woven

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rgb(170,148,109), rgb(54,63,48), rgb(101,50,29), rgb(215,187,147), rgb(96,89,67), rgb(241,239,233), rgb(101,76,40), rgb(126,93,65), rgb(223,206,169), rgb(193,181,154), rgb(127,115,85)

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